(n.) Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods.
(n.) Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit,
(n.) To be of service to; to be good to; to help on; to benefit; to advantage; to avail; to aid; as, truth profits all men.
(v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance.
(v. i.) To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(2) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
(3) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
(4) Helsby, who joined the estate agent in 1980, saw his basic salary unchanged at £225,000, but gains a £610,000 windfall in shares, available from May, as well as a £363,000 increase in cash and shares under the company profits-sharing scheme.
(5) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(6) Profit for the second quarter was £27.8m before tax but the club’s astronomical debt under the Glazers’ ownership stands at £322.1m, a 6.2% decrease on the 2014 level of £343.4m.
(7) Analysts have trimmed their profit forecasts for this year with trading profits of £3.3bn pencilled in compared with £3.5bn in 2012-13.
(8) It argues that much of the support of for-profits derives from American market ideology and the assumption that the search for profits leads to efficiency in production.
(9) The company said it was on track to meet forecasts for annual profit of about £110m.
(10) Our positive experiences with IMACS discussed above should be even more profound and profitable for the larger medical institutions.
(11) Large price cuts seem to have taken a toll on retailer profitability, while not necessarily increasing sales substantially,” Barclaycard concluded.
(12) The retail and wholesale divisions powered the improved profits.
(13) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
(14) Knowing the risks of transporting cocaine from Africa to the US, and given the slim profit margin, “tell me who will be doing that kind of deal?” Chigbo asked.
(15) The expansion comes hot on the heels of another year of stellar growth in which Primark edged closer to overtaking high street stalwart M&S in sales and profits.
(16) This year we are growing at more than 20% in terms of volume, but the issue is profit margin.
(17) But without the US business, it will be more reliant on its European business, as well as being less profitable.
(18) Such tales of publicly subsidised private profits very much fit with the wider picture of relations between the City and the nation.
(19) Everton announce plan for new stadium in nearby Walton Hall Park Read more The club has set aside £2.5m to commence work on the stadium should its funding proposals – that Elstone claims will give the council an annual profit – gain approval.
(20) Where the taxpayer will pay now have to pay replace all the ageing power stations the privates sector has profited from for the last 30 years.
Turnover
Definition:
(n.) The act or result of turning over; an upset; as, a bad turnover in a carriage.
(n.) A semicircular pie or tart made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, inclosing the fruit or other materials.
(n.) An apprentice, in any trade, who is handed over from one master to another to complete his time.
(a.) Admitting of being turned over; made to be turned over; as, a turnover collar, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) This decrease cannot be accounted for by increased turnover of the mRNA in the presence of the drug.
(2) The phenylalanine model allows the rapid assessment of whole body and muscle protein turnover from plasma samples alone, obviating the need for measurement of expired air CO2 production or enrichment.
(3) Platelet survival time in patients with Crohn's disease proved to be significantly shortened (p less than 0.001), whereas platelet turnover appeared augmented.
(4) When given chronically over 6 weeks the advantages of adding benserazide (50 mg kg-1 day-1) to levodopa (40 mg kg-1 day-1) were less marked and although more dopamine was present in the striatum than with levodopa given alone (200 mg kg-1 day-1) there was no evidence of any increase in its metabolites (HVA and DOPAC) and therefore of its turnover and utilisation.
(5) In this study, protein efficiency ratio and net protein utilization together with the kinetic estimates of protein turnover were used to compare the effect of different protein and fat sources in healthy rats.
(6) Baseline evaluation revealed that 17 (32%) patients had high turnover (HTOP), and 36 (68%) normal turnover osteoporosis (NTOP) as assessed by measurement of whole body retention (WBR) of 99mTc-methylene diphosphonate.
(7) As many as 25 turnovers of the transport cycle per monomer can occur prior to attainment of steady state.
(8) Gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists inhibit these maturation responses in a calcium-dependent manner and promote phosphoinositide turnover.
(9) In conclusion, increased cell turnover is a significant component of the sclerotic process both at the onset and in the late stages of this model.
(10) Noradrenaline turnover and metabolism are altered soon after imposing increased workload on heart.
(11) This suggests that the fluphenazine-induced sedation is not mediated via its effect on brain NA content, but is possibly due to the effect of the drug on NA turnover rates in the brain.
(12) It is suggested that reduced IVM may reflect reduced total albumin mass due to lowered rates of albumin synthesis or increased rates of turnover.
(13) In gastric ulcer patients DNA loss or turnover was significantly (p less than 0-01) higher than normal, and fell significantly (p less than 0-01) after four weeks' treatment with carbenoxolone when 16 of the 17 ulcers had healed.
(14) This inhibition is counteracted by the somewhat slower increase of NE turnover resulting in normalization of LH levels.
(15) and the turnover of (22)Na in this fluid it does not appreciably affect the turnover of (22)Na in the brain tissue of either rat or rabbit, the small inhibition observed being probably secondary to the effects on the c.s.f.3.
(16) Brain stem 5-HT turnover was also reduced in nondiabetics but not in diabetics.
(17) The degree of the turnover of AMPs in the kidney varies from case to case.
(18) The degradation of cellular proteins in fibroblasts, both those of rapid and those of slow turnover rates, was inhibited by low concentrations of chloroquine or neutral red in the medium.
(19) Measurements at rate-limiting concentrations of thrombin have allowed estimation of turnover rates of fibrinopeptides that agree with kinetic parameters obtained with direct assay of fibrinopeptide.
(20) The radio-GLC technique described yields approximately 20% higher fractional turnover times for oleic acid than do standard methods.